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Trichomonas SP. from the Gut Contents of a Corais Snake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. M. Das Gupta
B. M. Das Gupta
Affiliation:
From the Department of Protozoology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Extract

Trichomonas sp. from a corais snake

Description. Body usually pear-shaped. Average size 12 × 8μ, Three anterior flagella of unequal length. Basal fibre absent. Feebly developed undulating membrane.

Habitat. Intestine of Dymarchon corais, from North America.

Locality. London.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , March 1936 , pp. 202 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1936

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